Profile Summary:
Dr. Georges
Wakim has more than 7 years of teaching experience at different Lebanese
universities and Canadian college. The main teaching subjects relate to
accounting and finance materials with other business-related courses.
Education:
Dr. Wakim has
earned his PhD degree in Education Studies, Critical Policy, Equity, and
Leadership Studies from the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Canada. He
also earned a Master of Business Administration- Finance from Notre Dame
University (NDU) – Louaize, Lebanon.
Core Focus
Areas:
This
interdisciplinary educational background enables him to work with:
§ Education
policy
§ Education
resources and development
§ Program
delivery
Research:
While
completing his PhD education, Dr. Wakim was also engaged with research team and
took the responsibility of technical calibration of the US EBAM (Evidence-Based
Adequacy Model) into the Canadian context. He was part of the first team that
brought such a model outside the US, define its methodology, and support it
with the needed evidence from the Canadian context. This research aimed at
introducing the model, defining its calibration means, and its impact on the
level of resources needed within K-12 public schools to attain the required
educational performance level of the Province of Ontario.
Within the
field of business, Dr. Wakim was also engaged in research dealing with the
effects of COVID-19 on businesses on two dimensions, operations and strategy
within two developing countries. This work is co-authored with two business
professors from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke – USA
Languages:
He is also proficient in English, Arabic
